Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-07
HIGGINS AND BUCKLEY.
The Two Great Statesmen Meet
and Shake Hands.

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Sacramento was thrown into fer
ment last Thursday when Mr.. Buckley
met Mr.. Higgins in the lobby of the
Senate and publicly took his hand. The
salute was performed with as much cere.
mony as attended the meeting of the
monarchs on the Field of the Cloth OF
Gold.
Mr.. Higgins was leaning against the
cigar stand outside the Senate chamber
talking to a clergyman, who was en-
deavoring to enlist his sympathies in
favor of bill to abolish picnics on Sun.
day, when Mr.. Rainey, who has some
business in Sacramento in connection
with the San Francisco Fire Depart.
inent, approached and asked for brief
audience. Mr.. Higgins removed his left
ear from the possession of the religious
lobbyist and extended it to his secular
rival.
Mr.. Rainey whispered dozen words,
and nodding assent Mr.. Higgins walked
few steps into the Senate lobby.
A moment later Mr.. Buckley emerged
from the Sergeant-at-Arms' room, ad-
vanced six steps towards him, and
halted.
Mr.. Higgins measured the distance be.
tween them with his eye, and then
walked to spot exactly midway be.
tween them.
Mr.. Buckley spoke to the gentleman
on whose arm he was leaning, and then
they walked over to Mr.. Higgins.
Mr.. Buckley extended his hand about
twelve inches, and Mr.. Higgins moved
his right digits forward exactly the same
distance.
Mr.. Buckley extended his hand six
inches further.
Mr.. higgins did the same, and their
hands touch. Each took moderate
grip of the other, and the whole Senate
paused in its labors, while seven news.
paper correspondents made hasty dash
for the telegraph Office. to get the first
news over the wires that Buckley and
Higgins had at last bridged the chasm.
A Senator, his voice 30 choked with
as to be almost inaudible,
moved recess, but no one had suffi-
cient presence Of mind to second the
motion. All hands were absorbed in
the scene. Even the lands of the clock
pointed downward at the united states.
men.
DR.. May, who has a S25, 900 Yosemite
and $1,000 raise of salary
bill. smiled so broadly that the points
of his sidewhiskers waved over the tips
of his ears.
Ex-senator Cross, who is vainly try.
ing to lobby through the Bancroft land
Cross) relief job, rubbed his hands and
chuckied so heartily that the tops of his
pantaloons ascended until three inches
of yellow hosiery were visible between
them and his low cut shoes,
Senator Clunie grabbed his Eight
Hour Car Drivers bill and made dash
for the lobby to congratulate the united
statesmen, and Mofitt, the note writer
from Alameda. thought of whitewash
and hugged himself for Joy.
In the meantime the hands of the
statesmen were clasped, and the awe.
stricken Senators could see by the
movements of their lips that they were
talking.
The crowd in the lobby grew larger
and larger. The lemonade drinkers in
the well fell in heaps on the stairs in
their efforts to reach the scene of the
reconciliation. Three OF Governor Bart.
lett's brothers brothers.in-law got
Jammed in the doorway and had to be
pulled out by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
"What's up, Rainey," asked an excit.
ed San Francisco book agent, who is
lobbying against the distribution of the
State textbooks.
Nothing much," answered Raipey,
calmly. "Jim Cannon is sick at Hig-
gins place, and Buckley sent me to ask
Higgins if it would be agreeable for hin.
to call on him. Bill said certainly, and
went off to give him personal invita-
ton. u San Francisco Call.